Posts by Fondazione ITS

In its 25 years history ITS Contest has shaped the careers and lives of countless designers and is now ready to do it again. Starting today, emerging creative talents worldwide have the opportunity to send in the applications online for one of the 10 spots available for ITS Contest 2027. ITS Contest finalists receive financial…

Japanese born Seiran Tsuno was nothing short of a creative shock when she landed her application for ITS Contest in 2018. First of all, nobody would have expected a part-time fashion designer to come up with such a revolutionary idea while working as a psychiatric nurse

“No one seems to know exactly what their role is”, writes Emanuele Coccia in his opening text in the catalogue for EXPOSURE – The Power of Being Seen, from Harry Styles to Lady Gaga, “ yet everything appears to depend on the work they do.” And indeed today stylists often appear to be the new…

The winners of ITS Contest 2026 have been announced in Trieste. The ten emerging designers, aged between 22 and 33 and representing three continents, were chosen by an international jury drawn from the worlds of fashion, design, culture and communication. Each designer has previously been awarded the ITS Excellence Award 10×10×10, which includes a €10,000…

There is an art that operates largely out of sight, yet more than any other determines how fashion enters our lives and settles into the collective imagination. Rarely celebrated, often anonymous, it does not create garments but decides their public existence, their ability to become symbols, icons. It is the art of styling, which unfolds…

The world feels increasingly divided. In 2025, we were reminded of a simple yet essential truth: creativity is born through encounter. It is through dialogue and shared work that ideas take shape, change people and, little by little, shape the cities we live in. We must build beauty, not destroy it. This is where the…

The designers selected for the 2026 edition of ITS Contest are here, representing a new generation of emerging talents ready to shape the future of fashion. For them, fashion is a laboratory of identity, where transformation replaces definition and the body becomes a political arena. Their work blends a plurality of cultures, intertwining local traditions…

The Contest continues to prove itself as a privileged observatory, capable of spotting the great names of tomorrow. Matthieu Blazy and Demna are among the designers who, at ITS Contest, planted the seeds of the future for many of the fashion industry’s leading brands. A piece from each of their very first collections is preserved…

To date, 2025 at ITS Arcademy has been nothing short of extraordinary. Our museum, dedicated to contemporary fashion but deeply rooted in creativity in all its forms, has once again proved to be much more than an exhibition space. It has become a stage, a classroom, a playground and a meeting point – a place…